- James Scott Linville passes along Anuradha Roy’s comments on the protests engulfing India and the death of the 23-year old victim whose brutal rape galvanized them (via 3QD).
- Reactions to the Japanese election as covered by the Rising Powers Initiative blog. You know, GWU is much better at Georgetown at establishing a presence for its programs. Just saying.
- Mark Leon Goldberg on Timor Leste as a “2012 success story” for UN peacekeeping.
- Nara Pavão explains “attitudes toward corruption.”
- A neat non-Duck post by PM on the Peloponnesian War.
- If you haven’t been following CJ Chivers’ blog, THE GUN., you should be.
- Zack Keck wants to set the record straight on Chuck Hagel. Good luck with that. And here’s Steve Walt on that topic. And Kori Schake on ‘unconsidered’ alternatives. And I’m pretty annoyed by Foreign Policy‘s big box of registration badness.
More blow the fold:
- An interesting piece by Mark Safranski: “Guns and the New Paternalism.”
- Think Progress’s top five energy-related stories of 2012.
- The US Senate reauthorized controversial FISA amendments that permit warrantless government eavesdropping.
- Celebrating Vaughn Williams at The Sphinx.
- Young Justice will return to the Cartoon Network. That should please a certain eight-year old in my household.
Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.
He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.
He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.
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